It’s time for OSU students to choose their 2011-12 living options. We encourage students to apply for housing as soon as possible.
Students wanting to live off campus are finding a tight rental market with a vacancy rate of about 1%. However, there are still many great options available for on-campus housing, including the new International Living Learning Center (ILLC) which opens in September, 2011.
The new ILLC will offer domestic and international residents can have an international experience without ever leaving Corvallis. The ILLC will be a global village on campus, with about 50% of the residents representing many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond. In addition to program offering, there will be opportunities to pair up with language partners, cook meals together and engage with people different from yourself.
Each domestic student will be paired with an international roommate, and each room will share a bathroom with another room. Students can select to share a suite with a domestic friend and share the experience of living with international roommates.
If the ILLC does not meet your need, there are 13 other residence halls to choose from with a variety of themes, locations, and amenities.
Students can apply for on-campus housing today! Visit us online at oregonstate.edu/uhds or call 541-737-4771.
I wanted to take some time to make sure all of our new OSU students were aware that the process to select your own room for the 2011-12 academic year ends on June 1st. We pride ourselves in allowing new students to select their own room or cooperative house on campus, and want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to utilize this experience. Here are some frequently asked questions we’ve received throughout the process that may aide you in selecting a space:
1. How do I know if I’m eligible to select a room? You are eligible to select a room if you have completed a housing application for fall 2011, and it has been processed by the housing assignments staff. To check if your application is completed and processed, you may return to your housing application via the MyUHDS web portal, and see if you now have the “Housing Selection” option in the upper left of your application.
2. I haven’t been able to find a roommate, so how can I select a room? The process for selecting a roommate can be challenging, and we’re aware of that. If you are willing to be placed in an available double room you may contact the Assignments Office: housing@oregonstate.edu for assistance with a room placement.
3. The building I want to live in is full. What are my options? I would advise you to select a room somewhere else. After room selection ends, and we send out official assignment notifications, we will begin a waitlist process for the summer where you can request an assignment change to a different building. Please keep in mind that if you and a roommate would like to move, we will need confirmation from both of you that you would like to switch assignments.
4. I’m not 18. How can I sign a contract? Regardless of age, everyone who selects a room online needs to confirm this selection by electronically signing a contract. Students who are under the age of 18 at the time of selecting a room will be sent a paper contract to have co-signed by a parent or guardian.
5. What happens if I don’t select a room by June 1st? After June 1st, we will assign students to rooms based on the date they completed a housing application and by their preferences as well as what space is currently available. Don’t worry, you will still receive on-campus housing.
Best of luck in your room selection process!
My name is Bree Mead and I am a sixth year graduating senior from Novato, California. I have been here so long because I am double majoring. I have an Art History degree already completed with a focus in Mesoamerican Art Studies, along with a Spanish minor and I am just finishing up my Fine Arts degree with a focus in Printmaking. I have officially been a Community Relations Facilitator for OSU since early April 2011 and it has really altered my life. I have been reading on social justice and diversity and also attended the first ever Exploring White Identity in a Multicultural World Retreat (EWI), the sister to Racial Aikido for students of color. It is a retreat for white people to learn and understand their own white privilege and oppression. In addition, I recently completed the Building Inclusive Communities (BIC) workshop to better educate myself on oppression & privilege.
These emotional experiences have been the most valuable to me in my growth as a white person in this world we live in. Read the rest of this entry »
The Cabbage Soup Diet. All you can eat Banana Diet. The Three Day Diet. Since the seventies, it seems that our society has been obsessed with these types of “fad diets”. According to Webster’s dictionary, a fad diet is defined as a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity. Typically fad diets promise quick and easy weight loss and offer claims that sound too good to be true (which is usually why they skyrocket in popularity….we want a quick fix!) Read the rest of this entry »
Over the last weekend, while visiting my family members, I was able to witness the reinforcement of societal prejudice. Although my they come from a conservative background, what was said during a conversation at dinner was inexcusable. With my brothers sitting at the dinner table, a family member openly made comments degrading people of the Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »
Through the last two years of working on understanding social justice and diversity I have had many battles within myself. I have worked hard to gain a better understanding of my white identity and how I may be perceived in our society. Yet, there is still something that I can’t understand or agree with that many white identified individuals have said. Many people who are White have said that they don’t believe they have a culture or there is no white culture. I’m shocked every time I hear someone say this to me as they believe they have no culture what so ever. Read the rest of this entry »
I find it interesting that given the amazing differences in various world cultures that there is something so very similar in our foods. Take empanadas for instance. Almost every culture has food encased in pastry whether it is an empanada of Central and South America, pastels in Brazil, pasties in Ireland and Wales, boerek in Lebanon, samosas in South Asia, potstickers in China, and dozens of other varieties of meat or bean stuffed pastries. Read the rest of this entry »
